https://crevilles.org/items/browse?tags=Prakash+Gyan&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&output=atom2024-03-29T11:47:59+01:00Omekahttps://crevilles.org/items/show/25084A lecture by Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables (Princeton University Press, 2010).
Princeton University Press:
A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, and political activists. In this remarkable cultural history of one of the world's most important urban centers, Gyan Prakash unearths the stories behind its fabulous history, viewing Mumbai through its turning points and kaleidoscopic ideas, comic book heroes, and famous scandals--the history behind Mumbai's stories of opportunity and oppression, of fabulous wealth and grinding poverty, of cosmopolitan desires and nativist energies.
Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization.
Shedding light on the city's past and present, Mumbai Fables offers an unparalleled look at this extraordinary metropolis.
Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.
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History as urban archaeology - Writing 'Mumbai Fables'
A lecture by Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables (Princeton University Press, 2010).
Princeton University Press:
A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, and political activists. In this remarkable cultural history of one of the world's most important urban centers, Gyan Prakash unearths the stories behind its fabulous history, viewing Mumbai through its turning points and kaleidoscopic ideas, comic book heroes, and famous scandals--the history behind Mumbai's stories of opportunity and oppression, of fabulous wealth and grinding poverty, of cosmopolitan desires and nativist energies.
Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization.
Shedding light on the city's past and present, Mumbai Fables offers an unparalleled look at this extraordinary metropolis.
Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.
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Gyan Prakash
Date
6 October 2011
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]]>https://crevilles.org/items/show/23912Abstract from the publisher :
Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representation--because the history of the modern city is inseparable from the production and circulation of images--and examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism.
Contributors explore dystopic images of the modern city in Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban dystopia in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis; 1960s modernist architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and 1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar Japan's sci-fi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema; fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid Johannesburg; and Delhi's out-of-control and media-saturated urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges in Noir Urbanisms is the unsettling and disorienting alchemy between dark representations and the modern urban experience.
Contents :
Introduction : Imaging the Modern City, Darkly - Gyan Prakash
MODERNISM AND URBAN DYSTOPIA
The Phantasm of the Apocalypse : Metropolis and Weimar Modernity - Anton Kaes
Sounds Like Hell : Beyond Dystopian Noise - James Donald
Tlatelolco : Mexico City's Urban Dystopia - Rubén Gallo
THE AESTHETICS OF THE DARK CITY
A Regional Geography of Film Noir : Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen - Mark Shiel
Oh No, There Goes Tokyo : Recreational Apocalypse and the City in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture - William M. Tsutsui
Postsocialist Urban Dystopia? - Li Zhang
Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque : The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema - Ranjani Mazumdar
IMAGING URBAN CRISIS
Topographies of Distress : Tokyo, c. 1930 - David R. Ambaras
Living in Dystopia : Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary African Cities - Jennifer Robinson
Imaging Urban Breakdown : Delhi in the 1990s - Ravi Sundaram
Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.
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Dublin Core
Titre
Noir urbanisms : Dystopic images of the modern city
Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representation--because the history of the modern city is inseparable from the production and circulation of images--and examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism.
Contributors explore dystopic images of the modern city in Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban dystopia in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis; 1960s modernist architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and 1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar Japan's sci-fi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema; fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid Johannesburg; and Delhi's out-of-control and media-saturated urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges in Noir Urbanisms is the unsettling and disorienting alchemy between dark representations and the modern urban experience.
Contents :
Introduction : Imaging the Modern City, Darkly - Gyan Prakash
MODERNISM AND URBAN DYSTOPIA
The Phantasm of the Apocalypse : Metropolis and Weimar Modernity - Anton Kaes
Sounds Like Hell : Beyond Dystopian Noise - James Donald
Tlatelolco : Mexico City's Urban Dystopia - Rubén Gallo
THE AESTHETICS OF THE DARK CITY
A Regional Geography of Film Noir : Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen - Mark Shiel
Oh No, There Goes Tokyo : Recreational Apocalypse and the City in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture - William M. Tsutsui
Postsocialist Urban Dystopia? - Li Zhang
Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque : The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema - Ranjani Mazumdar
IMAGING URBAN CRISIS
Topographies of Distress : Tokyo, c. 1930 - David R. Ambaras
Living in Dystopia : Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary African Cities - Jennifer Robinson
Imaging Urban Breakdown : Delhi in the 1990s - Ravi Sundaram
Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.